Alien world

Chapter 820 51. Humanity and the North
Olmedo’s answer was unexpected and reasonable.

Annan saw her busy in the office for countless days and nights. He wanted her to rest for a few days several times, but Olmedo refused because of his busy schedule.

Rather than being married to a career, it is better to say that I am married to Liberty City.

Annan thinks this is not good.

"Don't worry, I have the key to your room. I'll find you if I need it."

"That's good...huh?"

What does she mean?
In any case, Annan, who felt sorry for Olmedo, tried to handle official duties, but those densely packed common languages ​​were so hypnotic that Annan only lasted for forty-five minutes before falling asleep, as if he saw a demon in a trance. Jun Zai waved to him and suddenly woke up.

Since he was not the material to manage Liberty City, Annan started doing what he was good at, such as getting a detailed discussion of the Skeleton King with Evelin and extracting the key points.

In this way, a new issue of "Voice of Freedom" with the research results of Skeleton King was released.

Like dropping a mushroom bomb into a quiet pool, the emergence of the new origin caused a huge uproar.

Some mages believe that human nature does not exist, otherwise why no one has ever discovered it from countless medieval arcana masters in ancient times to today's mages. Some mages believed that the "Voice of Liberty" was sensationalizing and suggested that the newspaper publishing the news be arrested.

But more mages are waiting and watching: Mages are firm "materialists". They must see and experience it with their own eyes before they can believe that something is objectively invisible and intangible.

Most of them think that Skeleton King may be right, but that is the origin of other worlds, not the continent of Allen. For example, ancient wizards who explored and conquered other worlds discovered that not all worlds have magic power. Some of them are entirely composed of oceans, flames, and gases, like elemental planes, some are barren without a trace of magic, and some are completely dead, terrifying worlds...

Among them, one of the Thirteen Supreme Kings, the "Lakeside Morning News" of the Orr Empire, followed the words of the famous spiritualist and legendary mage Nilay: He believes that there is indeed an invisible vacancy between life force and soul, that vacancy It completes the cycle of life, but it is uncertain whether it is the humanity discovered by Skeleton King.

After a week of intense discussion among the entire Middle-earth mages, "Voice of Freedom" was released again, and published Skeleton King's answer: It will conduct a public experiment in the Kingdom of the Dead in half a month, and all interested mages are invited to go. The results will also be recorded through the magic stone and published simultaneously in the new issue of "Voice of Freedom".

The consequence of this is that the sales volume of "Voice of Liberty", which was only growing slowly around 80,000, suddenly reached 110,000 copies this issue...

Not only 110,000 copies were sold, but a total of 110,000 copies were printed.

Even Wilhelm, who had been trading with them, asked for a thousand copies.

This is thanks to the large purchase by the School of Magic, who seemed to realize that this was a good opportunity and encouraged students to participate in the discussion. The purchase of the Magic Academy also drives the participation of those who yearn for a mage's family.

Annan suddenly felt that this was a good opportunity. He found Dean Breshim, blocked the teleportation spell he had prepared, and suggested that Solz Magic Academy start its own newspaper.

Breshim immediately realized the huge opportunity: "But no other academy does this..."

"We can't wait for others to do it and then beat our chests and regret it, right?" Annan encouraged, "It doesn't matter, send some people to the newspaper office to learn. The mage is so smart, he can learn it in three days at most."

The Magic Academy newspaper must be established as soon as possible. There is no magician with a brain that is not easy to use. Maybe they are already investigating.

"Do you have the right person?" Blehim accepted Annan's suggestion.

"How's Alice?"

"If you can convince Swallow." Blehim said.

"Forget it..." Mr. Schwaro guarded himself as much as he guarded against thieves. Annan thought about his classmates at Solz Magic Academy, and two names came to mind: "Where are Xana and Suni Pule?"

"Those two sophomores?" Dean Blehim still remembers them. One is a branch of the Montreal family, the Waters family. One is the "eternal groom", "I will inform them when I get back."

It just so happened that Annan hadn't been back to Sirtoves for a long time, so they could have a good get-together when they came.

The heavy footsteps arrived before Xana and Suni Pule. Round-nailed leather boots clicked dullly on the floor. Officials from the Imperial Military Department in black uniforms came to the city lord's palace and conveyed the emperor's decree: "Order all coalition forces on the Northern Great Wall to advance 100 miles and re-station at the edge of the mountains."

"Why is there such a bad idea?" Annan frowned, "Let the soldiers come out from behind the city wall and face the rat men in the wilderness?"

"This is the resolution of the palace garden," the official said coldly.

"No, I can't let my soldiers go out from the defense line to die." Annan refused.

"You are disobeying the Empire's orders!"

"I am not a vassal of the Empire."

Annan's polite smile gradually disappeared and he looked at the imperial officials indifferently: "And even Montreal dared not talk to me like that."

"Your Excellency Annan, this is an order issued by His Majesty the Emperor himself." The adjutant walked between the two men and said calmly.

He quietly told Annan the reason: the empire was preparing to deploy a new line of defense in the north. The original Great Wall of the North had been relegated to the second line of defense, so coalition forces were needed to protect the completion of the new line of defense.

No wonder the empire spread the news a few days ago of recruiting a second coalition army, two lines of defense...

"But the rat men will come at any time..." Annan frowned.

"The nearest nest city has been destroyed. The ratmen cannot create a rat tide. There is no large-scale rat group nearby. We just need to prevent the ratmen from discovering and attacking."

"Any more?"

"What?" The adjutant was slightly stunned.

"Building the second Great Northern Wall is not a reason, I want a real reason."

The official looked at Annan intently and waved away the other people in the living room.

"You really want to know?"

"Even if you don't tell me, I can go to Mount Montreal and ask the answer myself." Annan looked at the official calmly.

"Does it matter?"

Annan frowned and looked at him: "I am the Lord of Liberty City. Everyone here calls me Master Annan. If they trust me, then I will be responsible for the soldiers who are loyal to me."

The official looked at him, and the coldness quietly melted a little, as if he was relieved, but also regretful.

"Then the real reason for the palace garden is that the empire is not satisfied with the loss of the hunting plan."

"Loss? Not satisfied?"

"The Skaven forwards did not defeat the coalition forces. They were proud and complacent, thinking that the Skaven were nothing more than that, and even used them as gilded tools."

"So you want the coalition forces to die again?"

The official didn't answer, but his expression acquiesced.

Annan thought of that sentence again:
The empire is not something to be loved, but something to be feared...

(End of this chapter)